Mastery of concepts--not memorization of facts. With Michael Levitzky's clear and involving presentation of pulmonary physiology, you learn how and why the human respiratory system works...in a format that makes it easier to absorb and to integrate as you learn the physiology of other body systems.

First choice for pulmonary physiology:

• Offers a tried-and-trusted route to learning pulmonary physiology
• Provides you with objectives at the start of every chapter
• Summarizes key concepts at the end of each chapter with locators indicating the location of the material in the text
• Makes learning easier with enhanced illustrations of all essential concepts
• Reinforces learning with new study questions and clinical examples at the close of each chapter
• Explains difficult concepts thoroughly, without oversimplification
• Covers respiratory function under stress—exercise, altitude, and diving
• Offers the best review for the USMLE Step I
• Provides handy appendices of symbols, gas laws, equations, pulmonary function decision tree, and normal values table